Tagged Questions

Questions about storing and applying style rules to paragraphs. Lay-out software like InDesign and QuarkXPress allow general style rules to be selected, which can then be applied to selected paragraphs.

I would like to design a paragraph (full of text) where the font size for EACH new sentence changes in font size and gradually get smaller and smaller with each new sentence. It would probably look ...

I've been spending more time in InDesign's paragraph styles I've found where a document can be created with set styles and used as a template but Im trying to figure out how I can review that InDesign ...

I'm an engineer, therefore my knowledge of graphic design are very, very, very poor... so please bear with me.
I want to know how much space I should leave between two paragraphs for my thesis. I've ...

In text editors, html, etc. the default mode of sub title spacing seems to quite equal. Why is that?
To clarify, we have an end paragraph of a subsection and a new subsection with title and opening ...

When I add a new column to a table in InDesign CS6 and I click into a new created cell it has a + in the style name. When I hover over the style it shows: "Overrides(alt+click to clear): (align: flush ...

In the Export Tagging settings in InDesign CC, there is an option to use a custom tag as well as a custom class name. However, if the class is left blank then the Style Name is used in its place.
Is ...

Does the functionality exist to have a persistent set of character and paragraph styles that's available on an application level as opposed to document level?
I know that styles can be imported from ...

Is there a way to format paragraph styles so that only the first paragraph in each chapter gets a drop cap?
So far I have seen this solved by saving a "first_paragraph" style and a "regular" style to ...

Alright so new feature of InDesign CC 2015 is Paragraph Shading. A long overdue feature. The question is for Print Projects is there any difference between using Shading vs the old way of putting a ...

I've created a Paragraph Style which uses a Character style for the bullet (Zaph Dingbat Solid Block).
The Character Style changes horizontal scale to 150% and adding a 50% skew. After applying the ...

I am using ID CC 2014 on a Mac and there's a huge file with several hundred pages where I need to delete a certain paragraph style replacing it with another. Say there's a para style called "style-1". ...

I have an Indesign template with a paragraph style called Main defined as below:
As you can see, this style is "based on" yet another style called Word which is in a styles-folder called Entry. And ...

Trying to use a heptagon (7-sided polygon) in place of a dash in a list style for a project in Indesign CC 2015. There doesn't appear to be a simple way to add it to the available icon choices without ...

Simple question: Within paragraph styles, is there a way to tell inDesign to create drop caps not using a set amount of characters at the beginning of a paragraph, but instead using the first word of ...

I have several paragraphs with the same style. I'd like to auto-add new line before the first paragraph and new line after last paragraph of the same style. How can I do this? Thanks in advance.
N.B. ...

I have boxes with references which are located beneath pictures in my InDesign 6 document. I want to have a consistent and continueing auto-numbering of these boxes. Therefore I created two paragraph ...

Sometimes when I click a color with the eye dropper in Photoshop CS 6, the color of a text layer in my document will change to that color. Oddly enough, this happens only one and I cannot duplicate ...

I have some paragraph text that I have modified using an envelope in Illustrator CS6. I can not make it into a clipping mask. I can make it into a mask up until I make it an envelope, after that, I ...

I'm going to design a fairly large festival programme and wish to make use of XML to ease the process.
But I need to be able to make column break after each entry, and also add spacing after certain ...